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THE STJBST^NCE 




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TWO DISCOURSES, 

OCCASIOXKI) BY THE NATIONAL BEREAVEMENT, ^O / ^ 

THE ASSASSINATION OF THE PRESIDENT. 

THE POSITIO:^, THE EESSOI^, A^O THE DUTY 
OF THE ^ATIO]^. 



DELIVERED IN 



ft. lames iif\nm\m\ €hm% 

Wooster, Ohio, Easter Day, 1865, 

BY THE RECTOR, 

REV. J H. MAC EL'REY, M. D. 



"The mvstic chords of memory, fetretohing from every hattle-field and patriot grave to 
everv living heart and hearthstone all over the hroad land, will yet swell the chorns of 
the Union, when again touched, as surely they will^he, hy the better angels of our n^- 
^XiXQ,'"— Lincoln's Inaugural, 1861. 



REPUBLICAN STEAM POWER PRESS, WOOSTER, OHIO. 

1865. 




THE SXJBSTA.NOE 



OF 



TWO DISCOURSES, 

OCCASIONED BY THE NATIONAL BEREAVEMENT, 

THE ASSASSINATION OP THE PRESIDENT, 

TBE POSITIOIV, THE L.ESSOaJ, AlVD THE DUTY 
OF THE IVATIOIV. 



DELIVERED IN THE 



Wooster, Ohio, Easter Day, 1865, 

BY THE RECTOR, 

REV. J. H. MAC EL'REY, M. D. 



'"The mystic chords of memory, stretohing from every battle-field and patriot grave to 
every living heart and hearthstone all over the broad land, will yet swell the chorns of 
the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our na- 
ture/' — Lincoln's Inaugural, 1861. 



REPUBLICAN STEAM POWER PRESS, WOOSTER, OHIO. 

18G-5. 



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The Substance of Two Discourses, 

BY 

Rev. J. H. M:A.0 ET^'REY, ]M[. D. 

WoosTER, April 17th, 1865. 
Rev. J. H. Mac El'Rky, 

Dear Sir : — "We respectfully request for publication 
the discourses delivered by you on yesterday in the Episcopal Church, 
on the occasion of the national bereavement. Believing the publica- 
tion of them will be productive of much good in this community, and 
hoping that you will accede to our request, we remain 
Respectfully yours, 

A. WRIGHT. 

JAS. D. ROBISON, M. D. 

J. H. BAUMGARDNER. 

JAS. L. DRAKE. 

GEO. H. LEHMAN. 

G. W. HENSHAW. 

W. CHILDS. 



WoosTER, April 18th, 1865. 
Messrs. Wright, Robison, Baumgardneb, Henshaw, jjlnd others, 

Gentlemen: — Justly proud of being by you thought 
capable of uttering upon the issues of these days of unparallelled 
events anything promotive of that loyalty to the government without 
which there can be no love to God or man, I hive unfeigned pleasure 
in complying with your request. As much of the substance of the dis- 
courses you ask for publication as can now be recalled — one having 
been wholly extempore, and the other given from a few brief notes — I 
proceed to place at your disposal. It is due to all to remind the reader 
that those surroundings always necessary to render even profound con- 
ceptions effective, and which often make weak words most potent, 
were abundantly supplied during those ever memorable religious hours 
of that lone, sad Easter Day, to stimulate the moral powers and to 
guide the tongue to thoughts that speak in words that burn. We had 



on the one hand the inspiring emotions of all loyal and affectionate 
hearts throbbing in pressing numbers the deep refrain of the nation's 
orphanage, contritely confessing her errings and strayings from God's- 
ways, like a far backslidden people, and the unutterable groanings of 
contrite spirits for sparing mercy in the midst of deserved wrath. We- 
had on the other hand, in all the coldness of nether-hardness of un- 
sympathy against the deep humiliation in what should have been unex- 
cepted grief, the presence of harder than steel — chilled and colder 
than frost-smitten hearts — hearts estranged from God and the Govern- 
ment through vicious amours for the perpetuation of an institution the 
quintessence of all the villainies, founded by fiends, fostered by the fu- 
ries and fed to the full stature of diabolical maturity, upon the bodies 
and souls of men, the living temples of Deity. Thankful I am for 
these opportunities of bearing em.phatic testimony in such presence, for 
unconditional loyuUy and against all and every shade of complicity 
with crimes which astound the demon — spirits of Herod and Nero, 
and deepen the darkness of the Inferno- — I estimate the fervancy of 
your desire to reach a still wider class than those who heard them, by 
words whose only intrinsic value is that they homely tell plain truth ia 
due season and are enhanced by the naerit of your approbation. In 
humble concert with the conscience to duty which invokes the reitera- 
tion of words which will prove as seasonable in the portentious future 
as they have in the momentous past, and praying for peace by right- 
eonsness, permit me to remain 

Yours for the Gospel and the Government, 

J. H. MAC EL'REY. 



Exodus 12th chap, and St. Luke chap. 21, verses 22, 28, 32 & 34.— 

' Isaiah 35th chap., 3, 4. 2d Chronicles chap. 32, verses 3, 5, 9, 13, Ifv 

17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23. Hebrews chap. 10 v. 36. Ephesians «, v. 12, 13. 

My Dear People !—TF7iai an Easter Day! Did ever any nation 
called Christian pass the like since days when princes and people were 
^martyred for righteousness ? The days of martyrdom are not ended. 
Indeed they have been rife of late. The murder we lament is but the 
last on lists of thousands. AVliat has this rebellion been but a vast 
series of assassinations ? 

Amid such surroundings, whait can I say to you ? This draped and 
thronged house — this draped town — this mourning land — your aching 
hearts and suffused eyes — these cloud-craped heavens, are all tongue- 
less proclaimers of the unutterable grief. Let these tell what word's 
cannot— tell of a nation bereft, a people orphauized— tell of our leader 



AND CHIEF CAPTAIN smitten to deatli, and our prime minister of State 
and his two sons now lying within the shadow of his dark portal, and 
all this by the most desperate act of extremest infamy, an infamy whiph 
is but the aggregation of all those measures which culminated in this 
rebellion. What has brought this quadruple of calamity upon us ? 
Do troubles like ours come forth of the ground ? Is there not a cause ? 
Is this a day to let the heart have way, to weep and mourn the mighty 
fallen ? No ! It is a time to go up to the house of the Lord, to stand 
in the ways and ask for the old paths, saying, where is the good way, 
that we may walk therein and find rest for our souls ? It is a time for 
all God-appointed watchmen, as they have done since the first, to 'lift 
up the voice like a trumpet and show the people their transgression, 
and the house of Jacob their sins." This, all but hirelings m the ser- 
vice of the enemies of God, and this good government, will do. And 
when better this, than on this day of remembrance on which our true 
Catholic Church-not Roman Catholic-but Catholic Church, through- 
out all the world, doth read the same covenant-makmg word of the 
covenant-keeping covenant, exacting God. Let a review of these, by 
ns, undesigned coincidences, which blend into each other during this 
season of commingled sorrow and joy in our church, and m the land, 
teach us the greatness of our defection, the exactions of God and the 
way of reformation. Think of the night of the crime- G'oo^^ Friday- 
saddest and fittest of the year for such an act. The night the God-man 
lay slain for the sins of the world-the Saviour, Deliverer, God-Father 
of his redeemed country, lay murdered in the Jerusalem of this pro- 
phetic land. Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows 
through these years of unparallelled degeneracy. While joy for the 
nation's victory swelled every true heart from Maine to Eldorado- 
while a race was by his act redeemed from chattelism, to a freedom as 
wide as our own-while that race, worthy of him, were crowning him 
as their Saviour— and all those worthy of being named as of the na- 
tion, hailed him the Moses of tie whole people— for we were all bound 
—then, the man more loved than Washington, was cut off out of the 
land of the Hving, in the twinkling of an eye, by a heart possessed by 
the blackest spirit that ever came outside of hell. Jesus was crucified 
because he would make men hohj. This model man was murdered be- 
cause he would make men free. But I do not essay to speak his eulo- 
gy, or name his epitaph. The universal grief of every unpolluted 
heart throughout the nation, to-day pouring out in kindred affection 
for him, speaks the one. The nation Regenerated, Perfected, Glo- 
rified, will be the other, r. . ,, -11, 
The world never g^i^ "the exceeding sinfulness of sm until she 



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saw it in the betrayal and crucifixion of Him who embodied all th« 
treasures of Deity. We never saw the pure sensual and devilish na- 
ture of this rebellion, the most wanton in the universe save that of the 
rebellion in Heaven — and hence the devilishness of the essential spirit 
of all secessions — as we see it now in the murdered embodiment of the 
Republic. The only appropriate expletives of this rebellion, and for all 
connivers at it, sounded more like rhetorical hyperbole than the unex- 
aggerable descriptives of facts, which they were. Who could over- state 
the case? There is nothing like it in the annals of nations. A rebell- 
ion of freemen — fratricides and regicides — the first such rebellion in all 
the world ; Republicans revolted against their own unviolated consti- 
tution, whose chief corner stone was cut out of the rock of ages by the 
hand that built the living temple of the Holy Ghost, and which corner 
stone has upon it in beautiful pharaphrase the title of the inalienable 
dowery of the Creator to all His creatures, " life, liberty and the pur- 
suit of happiness." Was, or will ever be found, save in those who will 
not have Christ Jesus to reign over them, more incontestable demon- 
stration of the totality of human depravity than we have in the wan- 
tonness of this rebellion against liberty, for the express purpose of 
setting up an oligarchy, having for its cornerstone a stone of stumbling 
to man, and a rock of offence to God, such as the basest usurpers of 
right that have disgraced depraved mankind since the days of Cain un- 
til the year of grace A. D. 1860, never dared if they ever dreamed of 
setting up ? 

"The new constitution," said the ''Vice President of the Confeder- 
acy," "has put at rest forever all agitating questions relating to our pe- 
culiar institution — African Slavery — as it exists among us, viz : the 
proper status of the Negro, in our form of Government. This was the 
immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson 
anticipated this as the rock on which the old Union would split. He 
was right. But whether he comprehended the great truth on which 
that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas en- 
tertained by him and the leading statesmen of the time of the forma- 
tion of the old constitution, were, that the enslavement of the Afriean 
was in violation of the laws of nature, that it was wrong in principle, 
socially, morally and politically, and that somehow or other, in the or- 
der of providence, it would be evanescent and soon pass away. Those 
ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the as- 
sumption of the equality of the races. This was an error. It was a 
sandy foundation, and the government built upon it, when the storm 
came and the wind blew, fell. Our new government is founded upon 
ideas exactly the opposite of these. Its foundaiiops are laid, its corner 



stone rests, upon the great truths that slavery of the negro to the su- 
perior race is his natural normal condition. This oar new government 
is the first in all the world based upon this great physical, philosophi- 
cal and moral truth." Is not this the most gigantic physical, philo- 
sophical and moral monstrosily the world ever saw? Does not the na- 
tion in her bounden duty of extirpating the infernal incarnation ''wres- 
tle against the rulers of the darkness of this world?" 

Oh ! the depth of the apostacy ! To see millions of ingrate sons of 
a continent first consecrated to the sign of the son of man, twice won 
from monarchy to freedom, now for the third time in the arena of mor- 
tal strife in which the life of the Divine Groddess of Liberty is the stake, 
and that Divinity set as the target by fathers, sons and brothers 
to her manor born ! It is a spectacle at which the whole world stands 
up upon the tip-toe of astonishment, a contest at which the good on 
earth and the blest in heaven lift up their heads, because by it the re- 
demption of humanity draweth nigh. In an uprising so defiant to God ^ 
and man, and in the collision of principles so antagonistic, the devs,s-jy 
t^tion must be of corresponding extent. /Z^^y^ 

leagues which for long ages travailed in pain under their \^m^ 
urdens of increase of helpless bondage, are now moistened with the sweat 
and blood of two of earth's vastest armies. The shocked bosoms of 
those leagues are scarred and furrowed over with the graves of noble 
and ignoble combatants, slain, the one for the testimony of Jesus that 
He will break the oppressor in pieces, and the other for the establish- 
ment of the rulers of a despotism the basest this world ever saw, and 
surpassed only in the regions of the blackness of the darkness of hell. 
It is with shame of face for the utterness of human abasement, and 
because I would not hold back one item in the black list of supera- 
bundant demonstration of the totality of mortal depravity, that I add 
the one yet darker and more ineffaceable proof yet to be named of the 
innateness ot his sin. It is this, that in addition to all former pitiably 
vile records of the sinfulness of sin, I throw in the superlatively fiend- 
like one, that tens of thousands of free-born souls, born on soil free 
from actual slavery, and self-styled disciples of the son of man, and 
among them not a few ecclesiastically constituted, but mis-named am- 
bassadors of the "glad tidings of great joy unto all people" of "the 
common salvation," sympathize and " gather with " a "confederacy" 
whose corner stone rested upon the rock of offence to God, that chat- 
tel slavery of the negro and his descendants on either side, to any de- 
gree of progeniture, is his natural, normal condition. It were useless 
to utter against such gross-souled creatures the pungent style of satir- 
ical rebuke, or the dispassioned proofs of phylosophical refutation, nor 



scarcely the energetic tones of righteous indignation. Of such are 
these "of "whom I have told you often, and now tell you, even weepings 
that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, whose glory is their 
shame, who mind earthly things." They know and love the " U. S. 
Fugitive Slave Law," better than they know or care to love the Higher 
Fugitive Slave Law of the Bible. They are the enemies of Christ who 
crucify him afresh in the house of His friends, those because of whom 
judgment begins at the house of God, and because of whom cometh 
the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Difficult though 
it may seem to believe it, now that the earthquake like force of moral 
and political overturnings, rebellious states, and military necessities, 
have shivered the rimmon of their love from foundation to chapiter, 
leaving the Dagon of their idolatry in atoms, these incorrigible mis- 
creant negro crucifiers, constitution loving, (?) administration-hating, 
woe-procuring criers ot peace, when because of such there can be no 
peace, stand ready at an opportunity to fetter the land with heavier 
chains than she has yet endured. Most pertinent to these are the words 
of David, descriptive of those deceitful pretenders for th» support of 
Ihe Idngdom, while they were cunningly teaching by secret ancl'*6pen 
sophistical counsel and example, the overthrow of the nation, and His 
assassination — "The words of their mouth are smoother than oil, but 
war — rebellion — is in their heart. Their words are smoother than but- 
ter, yet they are drawn swords." 

But, you ask, must the whole land go into the vesture of mourning, 
the sack cloth of confession, and tears and blood, for the instituted 
villainnies of separate sovereignties ? I answer this No and Yes. No, 
because we are one. Yes^ because the sin is one. 

Oh, sirs ! believe me, we are fuller of misdeeds, wrong theories and 
great sins than we are of sufferings and sorrows. If for any cause a 
people forget to incorporate God into the state, so that she will thus 
fail to teach men that God doeth His will among the inhabitants of the 
earth, that the nations may know that they are but men, He will visit 
for these slights to his prerogatives, with one or all of His sore chas- 
tisers. We bad committed the prime sin of legislating God out of, 
and Atheism and Slavery ixto, a continent discovered in the search for 
souls, and when discovered consecrated to "the heir of the world." 
It was by the power which is above and behind thrones — the blood of 
Christ — Ferdinand and Isabella were moved to equip from their Armada 
the man who proposed to find a new world to His blood-sprinkling. 
Would I had space to trace the course of this new nation, in relation 
to older families of nations, since then till now, that we might see 
whence we came, whence we are fallen and to whom we must return 



that we perish not. I can but name clmptev headings, sketch jutting 
promontories, mark shoals, warn of quick sands, and direct to a safe 
haven in the Rock of our salvation, the God of nations. 

Your conscience and judgment impel you to ask for at least a rapid 
review of the causes of our woes. The cause is the old one, covenant- 
ireaking-7io<5 with the South-i)i^i we never did. Nor is it that Oi cov- 
..enant-breaking hy the South, although that they did, and are even yet 
doin<^, and if they can will do in the future, to the absolutest extent, 
for they are estranged by the spirit of all sin and most unconquerable- 
Secession The cause of all our trouble is the sin of national cove- 
nanthreal'wg. which we did both with God and the world upon that 
which made and can alone preserve us one nation-THE inalienable 

EQUALITY OF MAN. _ . 

Allow me, on all this spirit-inspiring easier day, m the train ot this 
^appropriate Calender Lesson of our church, to ^ird up the loms ot 
your mind by thoughts becoming us on this occasion of inexpressible 
bereavement-thoughts and facts which, if the admonitions they echo 
be heeded, will turn us again in the unity of one spirit and that national 
repentance and reformation which alone can settle and perpetuate us 
to all generations. , . 

Let me open the ark of the covenant and read the testimony wherem 
lie the laws of our life. But lo ! as I open the sacred mclosure I find 
sad evidence that we first must have forgotten, or foresworn, and then 
violated them. As I unfold the Magna Charta of Human Rights, I 
discover that unholy hands have infolded therewith the corrupt manna 
of violated statute and covenant law, " the offence of which is rank and 
smells to heaven." " Secession is not the result of a day._ It is not 
produced by Mr. Lincoln's election, or by the non-execution ot the 
fugitive Slave Law. I doubted its constitutionality, and said so on the 
floor of the Senate. The States, acting in their sovereign capacity, re- 
sponsible for the rendition of slaves, was our best security. "-Senator 
R B. Rhett, secession convention, 1860. 

If we will at all retain the foul deposit, let it lie hidden as a relic oi 
the tortuous wilderness history of the nation during her mergmgs into 
newer life from her debasement in worse than Egyptian bondage. Let 
it never see light after we have now even tasted the clusters of our 
new regenerated land of promise, a land now being literally purged of 
the bane of all our oflFendings and the essence of our dissolution-se- 
cessiom.m and secessiom.^s. Freedom under God's Law was the es- 
sential principle of our being and growth. Slavery, regardless of 
OoD's Law, was the breach in that covenant of life. Hear ye, and 
feel to the depth of your affections, those laws of our life which I now 



atter as the vviitdiword of events so miohty, amid scenes sa mi3\'ing„ 
Hear them, as mortal and yet immortal beings, passing through the- 
valley of the shadow of death, through which death itself the Joshuj^. 
of our REDEMPTION has' jast passed to light us. See ve now what the 
whole people refused to see till now. See through these deep shadows, 
the sharpness of the contest, the malignaiucy of the resistance all over 
that blazing field of rebellion where the- captain of our salvation fell;, 
wrestling in the spirit of the Divine Saviouk, not against flesh and 
blood only, but against tbe rulers of the darkness of this world, viz, 
against fallen, wicked, revolted spirits- and against their hellish usur- 
pations in the persons of their emissaries, of heavenly places and pow- 
ers. Hear, and then, as n looking into the gra^ve untimely opened to- 
swallow up in one — the nation's favorite — the life of the nation, renew 
and seal and pay your vow of fealty thereto as did those immaculate 
men who made it, saying, "We hold these truths tO' be self-evident, 
that all men are created equal, that they are cndoM-ed by the Creator 
with certain inalienable rights, that amongst these are life, liberty, and 
the pursuit of happiness. For the support of this declaration, with a. 
ffrm reliance upon Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other 
our lives, our fortunes and our honor."" 

This is the true light that lighteth every man that cometh into the 
world. ^'GoD. that made the world and all things therein, seeing that 
He is Lord of heaven and earth, He giveth to all life and breath and 
all things. And hath made of one blood all nations — or races — of 
men to dwell on all thre face of the earth, and hath determined the 
time before appointed, and the bounds of their habitations : — not that 
rhe strong and selfish should debase and chattelize the Aveak — But that 
all should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after Him and find 
Him."' "And God said, let us make man in our image-, after our like- 
ness, and' let them have domi-nion over the fish of the sea and over the 
fowls of the air and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over 
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth,"' "And God saw 
every thing that he had- made, and behold it was ve?'i/ good.'^ Here 
are three voices, speaking upon one theme, at distances of five thou- 
sand years. The voices are distinct but not discrepant. There can bj 
but one- sense dravv'n from them all, that Liberty and equality are God- 
giveii, inherent and innate. These words which wing their echos from 
the verges of two times, and from the centre of thas last time, the 
days of the Son orMyLN, whose dominion shall be over all the world^ 
should be the Ritual and Litany of tbis nation through all this her last 
conflict with the powers of jvickedness, until the unshackled millions 
of earth shall be prepared to joi>i her in this chorus of Te Delm, and; 



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wlien tlir6nglmut an emancipated world the everlasting Gospel shall 
bave free course to prepare the earth as a bride for her Lord. 

Much has been sophistically said, especially since the breaking out of 
tliis rebellion, about our unprecedented advancement in all thmgs 
which compose national greatness, ''notwithstanding our asserted guilt 
in the assumed sin of slavery." It is a burning shame that men surely 
knowing belter, if competent to form sentiment and mould and wield 
masses," should for partizan and selfish ends sophisticate the credulous, 
by, in kern, ascribing our growth in power to our derelictness to the 
principles of our life, and to our unstinted aid in strengthening the 
bonds of thraldom even to the meshing of the whole land with chains. 
Every one familiar with our history knows that the phases of our pros- 
perity—of course I mean it not in respect of mere material, numerical, 
•arbitrary power-have been remarkably coincident with our moral 
beariao-^ This is worthy of our closest attention, and yet requires no 
elaborated argumentation. The philosophical and christian Adams 
saw the weakness of the inconsiderate attempt to coasolidate even ho- 
mooeneous particles into that cohesive solidity necessary to form com- 
pac^t national basis, without invoking the plastic hand of the God of 
nation, to gather up, to temper and mould together that great human 
composite, known as the American Republic. Nor was this a mere 
.circumstance, a fortuity. It was the index finger upon the dial indi- 
cating from then until now that every light and shade, sun-hidmg and 
storm which has passed over the face of the land, have been visited 
and graduated by that Sox of God, who received of the Father the 
natio'lis for his possession, and to whom the Father hath given to judge 
them, "because He is the Son of Man." 

You will not receive in the spirit of vain-glorying what I must add 
to this striking coincidence to make it complete, viz, that the clergy- 
man who had the honor of first invoking the Throne of Mediation for 
favor upon the organization of the Republic, was of our church. She 
has incorporated in her own statute laws and Articles of Religion, 
standino- testimonies of fallest and most implicit loyalty adapted to 
meet every possible emergency of the nation. Nor has she left it op- 
tional with her clergy and members to graduate the tx3ne and substance 
of their ''public prayers'' "for the President of the United States and 
all others in authority,'' according to the degree of their own personal 
estimate for "the Administration !' ' Neglect to respond from the pew 
for "deliverance from all sedition, privy conspiracy and rebellion,'' m 
these times when these sins rage, is taken as an evidence of as vile a 
^heart as would be indicated by neglect to respond to the prayer for 
deliverance from hypocrisy, emy, 'hatred and malioe—from blindness 



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of heart, iJie deceit of the world, the flesh and the devil,^^ or from any 
other evidence of "reprobacy of mind" and "'contempt of God's word 
and commandments." With what graceless savor, then, comes that 
mav;kish demurring from any Episcopalian, which is common now to 
all whose loyalty is not above suspicion^, against '' politics in the pul- 
pit," which being interpreted means ''distaste for bold, plain, unpar- 
tizan loyalty in the pulpit." Is \t politic or impolitic to denonnce or 
vindicate in the pid pit what we pray for or pray against in the reading' 
desk and. in^ the peic ? 

Surely, tii€ Episcopal church is no home for sympathizers with re- 
bellion. She has no cloak for schismatism either in church or in state, 
holding it to be self-evident that the spirit of secession, wherever mau- 
fested, in religion or politics, is earthly, sensual, decllish. You will 
understana me as speaking words ot truth and soberness when I say to- 
you that I would not give the cup of blessing to the lips of any one I 
suspected of being in sympathy with this diabolical rebellion. Nor 
would I, after due admonition aud instruction, permit their names to 
disgrace the communion list longer than I could scratch them. Note 
anothes significant thing in our history. A clergyman meeting Alex- 
ander Hamilton on the street, said. to him, I see you have notputGrOD's 
name to the constitution. Upon my word, sir, said Mr. H., we forgot 
it. Hamilton fell, under the guise of the duello, by the little less than 
assassin hand of the first traitor who lifted impious hand against the' 
life of the Union. God says that the nation and people that will not 
confess Him shall perish. God is in the Declaration of an Independ- 
ence not independent of Rim. He is not in the Constitution, capable 
of being if not intended to be interpreted in the interests of an institu- 
tion which legitimately ignores God in Christ and Christ in Man. 
AVe stood up ])efore the world the most stupendous absurdity the world 
t'ver saw. A Republic with chattel slavery. A Constitution without 
God ! But this was contrary to the first intention. (See ''Articles of 
Association," 1774.) In this lies our salvation. The covenant-k'^ep- 
ing God will treat with us on first principles. It was whatever of ad- 
herence we had to these that made us as truly great as we were. It 
was our departure from these that brought us where we are. It will 
be- the re-assertion of them which will settle us in Union and keep us 
in peace. 

Our birth and growth were alike wonderful. It was not from any se- 
lect few or exclusive tribe we came. It was from the one world wide 
family of Adam, a few from here and there, of exiled demizens. They 
come from out of vallie* of death and caves of banished freedom. 
They cam.e as by the wand of Colunibia from the breadth of the earth.. 



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who were nowhere fi people. They were not "fine fat sleek men, who 
islept well o' nights, and gave "my lords" no trouble." They were 
wakeful vigilants, who had songs in the night, and had night and morn- 
ing watchings for deliverance. The spirit of holy freedom, then all 
abroad, to separate then, as always, the weak from the strong, and then 
to strengthen them to glory in the Lord, who is a strength to the weak, 
blew from the faar winds, and thus arose upon the breadth of this 
great continental basis for a freedom as broad as humanity, this mighty 
nation. Thus did the fathers covenant with God that if He would be 
with them in founding and maintaining a nation upon the inalienable 
principle of the innate right of all men to freedom, then this should 
be the father- land of liberty and equality. This they signed as with 
their blood and sealed with their sacred honor. They did this also for 
those that should come after. They inscribed their thought of liberty 
upon their banner in the colors of day. In bars of blood re(i of the 
morning, significant of the baptism of blood which must ever purify 
the way for the day star to shower the white light of liberty over the 
world, that as she approaches the sun setting of time beneath a canopy 
•of blue, symbolical of the Infinity beyond, she might settle into the 
freedom and light of eternal day. They perfected their great concep- 
tion of that e?isign for the nations by studding it above with the lamps 
of the firmament, a lamp for a Sto.te, that they might throw their con- 
stellated beams upon the land by night, whilst the central sun of the 
system would smile upon it by day. They then swung the star-fastened 
emblem into the blue of heaven, symboled also in its background, to 
speak of a freedom as pure and free as the unclouded and uncolored 
atmosphere which fanned it. 

The stars in their courses fought for it, until it floated like a sea-bird 
from island to island, and sped as with wings of light around the world. 
The nations saw it and were lightened, until even the sons of Etheopia 
stretched forth their hands for the olives of liberty. All the world saw 
our greatness. The kings of the earth stood up for us, and feared us. 
The oppressed everywhere read our principles, knew our prestige and 
begged our patronage. Our arms they did scarcely dare to ask. But 
they instinctively and boldly claimed what were heavier blows upon 
the mailed heads of despotisms, than those of our swords. They 
claimed the majesty of our sympathy, our God speed to freedom. Nor 
did any people that ever struck for freedom in the pure days of this 
nation ever fail of her Attainment for lack of anything ever guaranteed 
in our stipulations with the world, save and except where and when the 
the setting up of free institutions would have cramped our own slavery, 
and in such cases we did always throw oar weight with the strength of 
i:he oppressor. 



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"T want Cuba, I wnnt Taniaulipas, Potosi and one or two other Mex- 
ican States, and I want them all for the same reason — for the planiinf^ 
and spreading of slavery. A footing in Central America will power- 
fully aid us in acquiring those other States. Yes : I want these coun- 
tries for the spread of slavery. I would spread the blessing of slavery, 
like the religion of our Divine Master, to the uttermost ends of the 
earth ; and rebellious and wicked though the Yankt^es have been, I 
would even extend it to them.''^ — Senator Brown of Miss., 1860. 

"Citizens of the United States in the spirit of this policy, subverted 
the free Republic of Nicarauga, and opened it to slavery and the Afri- 
can slave trade, and held it in that condition awaiting annexation to 
the United States, until its sovereignty was restored by a combination 
of sister Republics opposed to the same danger and apprehensive of 
similar subversion." — Secretary Seward in the Senate, 1860. 

When the principles of '76 sprang upon their European career in the 
revolution of 1789, with a force that made those monarchies tremble 
and quake, the United States uttered warm and firm words of cheer. 
When in 1792 Louis XVI announced the new constitution to the na- 
tions, as might be expected, kings spurned it. But our President im- 
mediately sent the notice of his acceptance of it to Congress. The 
representatives of the nation unanimously expressed their sincere par- 
ticipation in the interests of the French Republic, hoping that the de- 
fenders of the constitution might be rewarded by the full attainment of 
their object, the permanent freedom and happiness of so great a peo- 
ple. Immediately upon this our first salutation to our own Goddess in 
the new Republic in Europe— Sardinia, Austria, and soon Russia, The 
Netherlands and Great Britain formed the combination known as "The 
Allied Powers" and "The Holy League." A holy league to kill Lib- 
erty. Those powers were sot friendly previously, but fear "made 
them wonderous kind." They "became Confederate" to girdle and 
check the growth of the olive of liberty and peace, to annihilate the 
BODY, and thus compel the flight of the spirit, of American Republi- 
canism from Europe. The Alliance was an armed intervention to re- 
store the ancient order of things in Europe, and against the principles 
of the French Revolution, deemed to be of dangerous example and 
contageous influence upon the neighboring monarchies. They loved 
oppression and hated liberty. The 22d of April, 1794, found France 
clothed in her new robes of freedom, already established in the palace 
of her lately executed king, and in full exercise of every function of 
the new state, having also driven beyond her territories those powers 
who had entered them to assume the vindication of the equally as- 
sumed prerogatives of a defunct Royalty. The committee of safety 



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jiniioanecJ to our Congress — ''A National Goverumont is borri ia 
France, and with it victory over the conspirators against the new Re- 
|)iiblic. We desire to draw closer than ever those bonds of friendship 
which unite the French nation to the United States." The Senate as- 
sured the committee of their friendships and good will ^to the French 
Republic. On the first day of the year 1798, the standard of the new 
Republic was unfurled in the Senate of the United States, and over the 
cradle of American Independence, amid the fervors of an unsullied 
enthusiasm seldom if ever witnessed there since our Goddess came 
thence in instant maturity from the brain of her God-like fathers. On 
that great day Washington said — "My anxious recollections, my sym- 
pathetic feelings and ray best wishes are irresistably excited when I 
see in any country an oppressed nation unfurl the banner of freedom. 
I rejoice that liberty finds an asylum in the bosom of France, and un- 
der a regularly organized government which gratifies the pride of every 
<'itizen of the United States, by its resemblance to their own." 

Those measures of the French Republicans, which made the father 
of This utter such paternal expressions of sympathy with them, were 
consummated under the folds of our dear old flag, festooned around 
the chamber of their deliberations. Note especially here, that while 
all this fraternizing was being indulged in between us and our trans* ' 
ntlantic brethren, the Atlantic was all aglare with those lurid fires of 
wars which then raged all over western Europe, and when England 
was still able to, and did, in open violation of her recent treaty of 
peace, hold all our western posts, and when all those bsUigerants, pi- 
rate-like, supplied themselves from our peaceful, unarmed merchant- 
men. I know mercurial, capricious France soon became factious, was 
first rent by mere xotioxal discords, and then was conquered by a die-' 
tator, and then crouched back beneath the old throne. But for all 
that, we should have been faithless to our own principles had we with- 
held the hand and voice of fellowship. But, although panther-liks, 
she is ready now, were she able, to spring upon us, she 

"Cannot ehake har goary locks at ns, 
And say "yp did so" unto »« in our trial " 

Liberty, heaven-born and heaven-guiding, could not live in France, 
on the principle that the last relic of a bad religion is instituted 
irreligion. When France ignored God, liberty fled. Says La'Martlne, 
''France has no stability — no government— because France has no 
God." 

While I cannot stop to further specify instances of proof of my pro- 
position that it ,vas not in any sense the increase of our slavery, and 
■oar neglect ot higher law, that made us powerful ,• I am sure I 
oauuot better epitomise the law of our success, and the substance of 



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our histoiy, than by saying that v^e won our respect and established 
our greatness very early, and that our estimate by the nations has been 
in exact proportion of our faithfulness to the spirit of the Declaration 
of Independence. 

Flushed with the blood of conquest, and maddened with rage at our 
— to them — gauling prosperity — unprecedented since the days of Greek 
pre-eminence — Britain struck at us (let us pray for her sake, and for 
that of humanity) her final blow. She did not prostrate us. (We held 
in the mean time, and ever since 1778, a standing proffer to Canada to 
"accede" to the measures, aud be entitled to all the advantages of this 
Union.) Why were we not prostrated? I cannot give you the fata- 
listic answer of the mechanical philosopher, and say it was owing to 
some fortuitous law of natural progression. All that kind of abstract- 
ing and distracting generalizing makes nothing plain. Nor will I of- 
fend your devoutness by insinuating tha more plausible but really 
Atheistic aphorism of Boneparte, and tell you our success lay in the 
socret that "God is always on the side that has the strongest artillery." 
Our whole life, especially so in this rebellion, to this moment, has been 
a visible refutation of such infidelity. This nation had her greatest 
achievements in days when she was weak in artillery and strong in 
integrity. 

The record of our life-course is as remarkable as that of our crea- 
tion. Just as long as we mediated for, and heartily cheered on, the 
cause of liberty abroad, and purposed with all honesty, 7io doubt, as is 
amply evident in the doings of our fathers, to destroy/ the relic of bar- 
barism at home, with a united Europe to intimidate us, God restrained 
the whole menagerie of beasts from us. Twice He broke the Lion's 
mouth, and always held the paws of the Bear within their shaggy 
sheaths. Two of our wars were purely defensive, and for the estab- 
lishment and maintenance of the purest principle of human govern- 
ment the world has had since the fall of the Theocracy. 

They were marvellous successes. The first especially was a system 
of RETREATS made more successful than advances. They were real 
Jericho campaigns. The formidable enemy melted down as b}'^ the 
breath of the people. But how is it now, that what most of us at first 
counted a mere Ai skirmish — "a breakfast job" — those of us who did 
not so reckon, but gave the rebellion a five years' rage, were actually 
accused of sympathy with it — has turned out to have an Ai sequel ? 
Is it not because our sin was as the sin of Achan ? Did not our whole 
camp cover it until we were well nigh ruined ? Four years— yes, three 
years ago, were not the peojAe, with the exception of a few "imprac- 
ticable enthused abolitionists,'' more anxious to save the Union with 



^he accursed thing in it, than to save it by casting the cause of the 
curse out of it? But worse yet. Two years ago, after so many foun- 
tains of precious blood had been poured out upon the land so cursed 
by men being made as cattle, we said— Me people said— "we would 
rather save the Union with chattelism in it than without it." Then 
there was but one man among all our chief captains, great enough to 
lift his hand and his voice to heaven with the hyssop of purgation, that 
the flow of blood might be stayed, by blotting out the cause of our of- 
fending. 

But the people reasoned according to their accustomed logic of death, 
.and safd, we shall not surely all die because of the sin of Achan. 
"Every state is responsible for their own sin." But God said, "The 
whole land is defiled." We said, ^'Nay, we are sovereign, independ- 
ent states. Wilt thou slay the righteous with the wicked?" But God 
said, "Are ye not one, and your President one? Are ye not federal 
parts composing one indivisible nation ? Are ye not fighting to estab- 
lish the principle of your unity? How reasonest thou, then, that the 
whole land is not defiled by complicity in the sin in the irxterests of 
which this rebellion was waged ?" And the people said, "That is not 
what we wish to hear. We insist that we are one, but our sin is not 
one. We will not hear nor answer thee 1" Eut during all this, our 
armies had terrible slaughter, but little or nothing was achieved. 

There went out a man with a small command, and he put a torch m 
the hand of every man. His enemies said "he meant indiscriminate 
slaughter." The torch was called, "Proclamation of Freedom unto 
all the slaves within my command." Now, this commander did 
"march with a rapidity unequaled since the days of Washington." 
The torch of freedom made a great light before the camp of the enemy, 
and was very terrifying to them. And they said, ' 'This is not civilized 
warfare." All this was very displeasing to all those Generals whose 
war-cry was, "look at me," and "now for the White House." Also, 
there were in that region, and in the breadth of the land, many 
"conditional Union men." But they were also ivorshippers of Baal. 
Now all these, with those jealous Generals, whose ambition was "the 
White Hoise," cried out, "Why hast thou served us thus," &c., and 
they did chide him sharply. But he said unto them, "What have I 
done in comparison with ye?" Ye "have had great slaughter, and I 
have but proclaimed liberty unto them that are bound, and have used 
the sword of the Lord. Is not the gleaning of the grapes of freedom 
better than those vintages of blood which have marked the course of 
your armies, like the rolling of the wine press of the wrath of God. 
In the mean time all the Baalites and "conditional" men, and partizan 



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Generals, cried unto the President and said, ''Tliy servants love tlie> 
Union and would like to defend it ; but thy servants have always be- 
lieved in the domestic institutions of the South, and have scrupled at 
nothing in defending them. They also believe it is right to confiscate- 
the property of enemies in time of war. But they hold that inasmuch 
as cliattel property is peculiar, and is specially guarded by the Fugitive 
Slave Law, therefore slaves should not be confiscated, for they are 
especially dedicated to Baal. We pray, therefore, that the Proclama- 
tion of Freedom to slaves be revoked, or thy servants will altogether 
worship Baal." The President, convinced that the proclamation was 
right, held this petition under consideration a long time. But the peo- 
ple became clamorous, and the faithful servant of the people was com- 
pelled to revoke the proclamation. In the mean time he remonstrated 
with the rash General about casting down the altar of those Baalites 
so soon. But the General said, wilt thou plead for Baal ? If Baal be 
a God let him plead for himself, because one hath cast down his altar.. 
And on that day he called Baal Jerub-Baal, which by interpretation is, 
Let the shameful thing plead for itself. S« the proclamation against 
Baal was revoked. The war went on. Much blood was shed. The 
rebellion appeared to gain strength at home and in Europe. While 
many hopeful yet fearful hearts were girding up the loins of their mind 
to meet the national martyrdom, God was preparing the people, by the' 
discipline of suffering, to receive peace hy righteousness. 

"And the Lord said unto me, (from the days of Pierce to Buchan- 
AX,) hast thou seen what backsliding Israel hath done ? She hath spo- 
ken and done evil things as she could. And I said, after she had done 
these things— compromising and framing iniquity by law— turn thou 
unto me ; but she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw 
it. And her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played 
the harlot also, and turned not unto me with her whole heart, but 
feignedly. And the Lord saith unto me, The backsliding Israel hath 
justified herself more than treacherous Judah. 

"Go and proclaim these words toward the North, and say. Return 
thou backsliding Israel, and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon 
you, for I am merciful, only acknowledge thine iniquity that thou hast 
transgressed against the Lord thy God. Turn, backsliding children, 
saith the Lord, for I am married unto you, and I will take you, one of 
a city, two of a family, and will bring you to Zion. And I will give 
you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowl- 
edge and understanding. ' - ' 'But ye would not. ' ' 

Life springing from seeming destruction declares 
Transmutation's the veil tha* eternity wear«, 
And that which we mourn for as if it woald strand 
In the gulf of oblivion, is eafe in God's hand. 



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Oh ! what days of praise the country will yet have when hev warfare 
is accomplished, and she have received of tl;ie Lord her demerit for all 
'her sins. What praise she shall sing that God gave her an incorrupti- 
ble President at such a time. He regarded himself as the mouth-piece 
of the people, and having no interest not theirs. He saw it was not 
the coiifession of our sins by the mouth of any man in his own circum- 
scribed sphere the nation needed, but that she needed that confession 
made in the person of the embodier of the national will. He knew 
that individual hearts must be made right before any mere hypothetical 
utterances of his personal wishes or policies could create or contribute 
the strength of active support of it. He knew it was with the nation 
•Ooi) was dealing, and not with any select number of Ker integers. The 
nation was rushed upon the yawning gulf of destruction by a domi- 
neering hoard of God-defying leaders of the Atheistic doctrine that 
politics knows no religion, and congresses have no souls and cannot 
sin ; that Caesar's accountability at the chancel does not follow CaDsar 
to the Capitol. 

In the midst of this sore grief and heavy judgment, let us sing of the 
mercy that gave us a ruler who, like David in the time Israel's rebell- 
ion and degeneracy, "would hear what God the Lord would speak to 
THE PEOPLE, that they turn from folly." We were enduring the great- 
est humiliation of a Republic^the administration of a disloyal Chief 
Justice and Chief Executive. Ah ! my people ! Thence comes the 
wail which mingles so equally with songs of mercy — that, as it was on 
a day of mingled joy and sa/dness of old, when a desecrated temple 
was about to be re- erected, so it is now. It is the echo of Israels and 
Rachels refusing to be comforted for their children that are not — that 
.are not, because 200,000 of their graves are no where to be found. 
Commingling with this sorrow, are the groans of uncounted hetacombs 
of the flower of the land, sacrificed to the Satanic treachery of the 
man — and his colleagues in the crime — "always more southern than 
the South." "I fear our country is lost, because the President of the 
United States will' not do his duty," said the patriotic and christian 
Justice McLain, on his way to the bench on the Supreme Court, on 
that memorable 4th of December, 1860. "I have just spent three 
hours supplicating with him by all that is sacred to remember the obli- 
gations of his oath aud maintain, protect and defend the Constitution 
of his country. This day he will send you a message, in which he de- 
clares that the people of the United States have not the right to defend 
and uphold their government. All, I fear, is lost." At noon of that 
day, that message came. It contained these Avords — "The purse and 
the sword were not given to Congress to coerce a seceded State." 



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Was this treason? This, in the mouth of the President, and the Chief 
Justice deciding that '"neither the class of persons who had been im- 
ported as slaves, nor their descendants — often as white as their owners 
— are acknowledged as a part of the people in the intention of the Dec- 
laration, or in that of the Constitution, as citizen, but are to be re- 
garded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate 
with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far 
inferior that they have no rights which the white man is bound to re- 
spect." The Lieutenant- General was also more intent on finding s 
safe way through which the erring sisters might go in peace, than in 
finding trees on which to hang their seducers. Shall these things ever 
be forgotten? Shall those who aided and abetted all those things ever 
be trusted, until they openly renounce the faith in defense of which 
those infamies were perpetrated ? He that gathsreth not with me, scat- 
tereth, and thus is for or against me. Is the Saviour's logic too sharp 
for us ? 

"When we in onr own vicionsness grow hard, 

Oh ! misery on't, the ■'^i«e eois ceai our eves, 

Mttke as, in onr own fith, drop our ciedr judgments, 

Adore our errorti 

Then laugh at us while we strut to our confusion " 

"Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which fram- 
eth mischief by law ?" "Shall I not visit for these things, saith God ?" 
Do some whisper, "God is merciful ?' ' I know He is ; but let a stream- 
ing Cross and a dying Saviour-victim, signify the order of it. Repent 
and be converted — pardoned — confess and be absolved. There is a 
time for repentance. But that may be sinned away. Then comes ret- 
ribution. I do not wonder that those who have done all within their 
power to stimulate to wholesale ruin, by plunder, fire, riot, local revolt^ 
upon the loyal at the North, and to produce disafi'ection and disaster 
in their ranks in the field, and chuckle over a system of prison starva- 
tion by traitors in arms, and in a word, were party to a rebellion con- 
ceived and carried out in the spirit of assassination ; I do not wonder 
that now, when abettors and actors have done their worst, and thus 
have undone themselves, they should plead for some of that kind of 
mercy upon their ignoble selves, which they, Ahithophel-like, sought 
for their nobler open accomplices in the crime which has but culmi- 
nated in the murder of the President. Neither the law of God or 
man knows any repentance or pardon for traitors, or any plea for 
rebellion. But some one may say, "This is the language of revenge," 
and "vengeance belongeth unto God." I know it. But I also know 
that sympathisers with treason are not reliable advocates for loyalty^ 
nor very ofthodox theologians. Either they are not familiar, or are 



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not faithful, with the laws of Got> or ths land. Vengeance is an uncle- 
'/liable principle of law. God never set it aside, and always gave it due 
satisfaction. The nation that will set it at naught will meet it again in 
an outraged populace, in the shape of Ljmch law and mob violence. 
Blood will cry to and for blood. Crime will have vengeance. Unwa- 
vering, instituted punishment of the criminal is the only safeguard of 
society, of the nation. But you say., "If thine enemy hunger feed 
him." I reply, Amex. Anything else would be to set constituted au- 
thority aside, and for the individual offended against to take the pre- 
rogatives of judge, juror and executioner into his own partial hand. 
Shall my enemy not therefore be brought to justice? My country will 
commend me for feeding hers, and my, hungry enemy. But should I 
neglect to capture and deliver him into her hand for punishment, she 
will hold me guilty in his stead. "Is God unrighteous who taketh 
vengeance? God forbid, for how then could God judge the world ?" 
"Dsarly beloved, avenge not yourselves — rather than this give place 
to wrath — for it is written, 'vengeance is mine,' saith the Lord, I will 
repay." How, then, does He revenge treason, rebellion, national con- 
tempt of Him? Absalom's rebellion, and the manner of his death, 
the history of David's reign, and his change of policy in reference to 
the treatment of rebels, will tell the story of treason, and God's method 
with it, in old times. The- teachings of Christ and His Apostles upon 
these things must be our guide in this dispensation. We shall here 
find that God ever had but one dispensation for nations, and one set of 
ministers with which to punish those offences named. These are pesti- 
lence, famine, icar. Kings, Governors and Judges have always been 
God's ministers in the nations. These were always what they are, or 
should be, now — "Ministers of God, revengers of wrath, upon evil 
doers." "They are ordered of God. Whosoever, therefore, resistetli, 
resisteth God, and they that resist, rebell, aid or abet rebellion, shall re- 
ceive damnation. Rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the 
evil. If thou wilt not be afraid of the power, do that which is good, 
and thou shalt have praise of the same. But if thou do that which is 
evil, be afraid, for he beareth not the sword in vain, for he is the 
minister of God. Therefore, ye must needs be subject not only for 
fear of wrath, but for conscience sake. Render, therefore, to all their 
dues'" Give traitors theirs that justice may have hers. 

Will the administration elevate and make honorable the statute law 
upon treason by applying it ? If not, let the law be repealed. Let 
enforced la.w be a terror to evil doers, now and in the future. Do not 
think I expect for this discourse the approval of men who would rule 
God out of government and equity out of law. Those who have every 



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reason to feai* justice do not admiringly contemplate her beauty. Let 
such men know that their approval is black reproach ; their reproba- 
tion is high praise. Men who have no reprobation for rebels, can have 
no reverence for religion. By their fruits ye shall know them. Let 
no one say the crisis is past, that rebels have done their worst, and 
this is the time for pardons. Be not deceived. God will not be 
mocked. That which hath been is that which shall be. Let the his- 
tory of the past presage the conduct necessary for the future, and show 
us our danger in the present. Let our lax leniency towards treason- 
plotters in the past, instruct to our course in the present. ''Ye shall 
not surely die," is the logic of traitors. The events which noAv astound 
us are the comment upon their unchastised impunity. Let us learn the 
wisdom, in the lesson of the time, from the significant leniency of that 
most self-convicted of traitors, who on the eve of his most wanton 
treachery said, "We have had a surfeit of liberty, an exuberanf^e of 
priceless blessings, for which we have been ungrateful." "Disloyalty 
breaks fealty with man, and sin's against the highest majesty of heaven. ' ' 
Not to visit vengeance upon such traitors is to offend God and provoke 
His vengeance. The bonds that bound us in brotherly affection to 
covert enemies, tightened beyond cohesive integrity, have snapped 
with wide recoil. Are we sure that no man will venture to reunite us 
again with those very Iscariots, and with similar bonds? We should 
by this time have learned not to be astonished at anything. We should 
settle it in our hearts that souls so utterly debased as to conspire the 
destruction of the American Republic, would stop at nothing which 
could consummate the infamy. The developements of each day should 
convince us that this need not fail for lack of accomplices. The valor 
of the nation has been tried. She suffers scarcely a pang of exhaus- 
tion. Her danger is like that of a stalwart youth coming up from 
victorious contest. In the magnanimity of a young and relenting heart, 
she would pardon in haste — and — repent at leasure. Pier moral value 
is now in the crucible of the essay er of nations. God has come down 
among us with "vengeance" for past sins of omission and commission. 
He is now among us with a "recompense," to save us. 

Long \\&^ military victory been delayed. AVhy? That God might 
achieve moral victory for us. 

The two ministries of God must now, as ever, be united in showing 
how God in very deed dwells upon the earth. "Give unto the Lord, ye 
kindreds of the people, the glory due unto his name. Let men say 
among the nations, the Lord reigneth. He shall judge the world in 
righteousness. The Lord wiil be a refuge for the oppressed in time of 
trouble. When He maketh inquisition for blood He remembereth 



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them. He forgetteth not the cry of the fiftlicted." Patriotism and 
religion are parts one of another. God will not be separated from the 
laws and morals of a nation by hypothetical reasoning. The whole 
people must know that loyalty to the constituted authority, which is a 
divinely ordained order in the state, as well as loyalty to the divinely 
ordained ordering of God in the church, is alike sacred and imperative. 
See yonder, far oif upon the rira of the horizon, are three men on the 
Mount Horeb, just above the gushing waters of strife. They are Mo- 
ses, Aaron and Hur. See on yon blue etherial back ground of the 
heavens, the grandest combination of national strength ever embodied 
before the world. Israel had just skirted the wilderness of sin, and 
had settled into a state of apparent repose, after having been in great 
strife with their leader and officers. Araalek, envious at their advance- 
ment, and emboldened by their dissensions, attacked them at Rephi- 
dim. Moses orders Joshua to defend Israel. Moses, with Aaron and 
Hur, ascends the hill to direct the battle, with the rod of God in his 
hand. When Moses held up his hand Israel prevailed, and when he 
let down his hand Amalek prevailed. Then Aaron, the embodiment 
of the church, and Hur, the representative of the people — the right 
and Ifeft hand powers of all government— took Moses, the embodiment 
of God — appointed nationality, and incorporating in a very Trinity in 
Unity in the people, and the church — the government. Aaron and 
Hur, the one on the one side and the other on the other side, held up 
Moses' hands until Joshua discomfitted the Amalakites with the edge 
of the sword. "And the Lord said unto Moses, write this in a book 
for a memorial, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua — the Lieutenant 
General of Israel — for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Am- 
alek from under heaven, because the hand of Amalek is against the 
Throne of the Lord. Therefore, the Lord will have war with Amalek 
from generation to generation, until I blot him out from under heaven." 
Let us here see our pasition, our lesson, and our duty. Let us faith- 
fully perform it, and soon it will be written in a book for a memorial, 
and be laid up in the ark of our covenent, in the Horeb of our strength, 
to be rehearsed in the ears of all generations that God did blot out all 
but the remembrance of this Amalek rebellion against the Throne of 
the Lord in this world — against equal government, equal sovereignty, 
and equal happiness of man. 

', Therefore, thus saith the Lord, If thou return, then will I bring 
thee again, and thou shalt stand before me, and if thou take forth the 
precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth. Let them return 
unto thee, but return not thou unto them. And I will make thee unto 
this people a fenced brazen wall. They shall fight against thee, but 



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they shall not prevail against ih^e. For I will deliver thee out of the 
hand of the wicked and will redeem thee out of the hand of the terri- 
ble." Let God's Statute- Book, and the covenants of our fathers, be 
our guides in reconstruction. God has long since anticipated us. Let 
God tell us how we must repossess and fully mature a regenerated 
KATiox. "How shall I put Judah among the children again ? and give 
her the pleasant land, the godly heritage ? And I said, Thou shalt 
call me, ''My Father, Thou art the guide of my youth," and shalt not 
turn again away from me." Oh, my nation, wash thine heart from 
Avickedness that thou mayest be saved. To this the land must come. 
Peace and peacefulnoss can eome only by slaying the enmity — the 
SPIRIT OF SECESSION — and so making of the twain oN.i new nation, and 
so making peace. Thus confirmed at the Altar of the true Theocracy, 
the world, through us, shall be brought to the fullness of christian 
nationality, under which the united embassadry of God, in the church 
and in the state, shall preach peace by righteousness to them that are 
afar off, and to them that are nigh. "In those days the house of Ju- 
dah shall walk with the house of Israel. And they shall come together 
out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inher- 
itance unto your fathers." "The envy also of Ephraim — viz, envy at 
increase — shall depart, and the adversaries of Jndah shall be cut off. 
Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim." 
"And there shall be an highway for this people, like as it was to Israel 
in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt." "Israel shall 
then dwell safely alone, the fountain of Jacob shall be upon the land 
of corn and wine, also his heavens shall drop down dew." Happy, 
thrice happy, shalt thou then be, thou nation, saved by the Lord, tli-e 
shield of thy help and the sword of thy excellency. 
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